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We lead multidisciplinary applied research and training to rethink the way health care is delivered in general practice and across the community.
Meet a student - Georgia Richards
NIHR CLAHRC Oxford Communications Officer Gavin Hubbard interviews DPhil student Georgia Richards about her recent move from Australia and what prompted a change of heart towards a research career rather than studying medicine.
James' story - Working for a family-friendly department
Senior Research Fellow James Sheppard describes how the department has supported him to progress his career while achieving a positive work–life balance through shared parental leave.
Big Data: How codebreakers helped transform healthcare
Professor Carl Heneghan, Director of the Centre for Evidence Based Medicine and Official Fellow of Kellogg College, discusses the role of code breaking in healthcare, linking its use to the famous Enigma Machine and explaining why the department is linking up with Kellogg College's upcoming 'Bletchley Park Week.'
Training for public contributors
PPI Coordinators Lynne Maddocks (NIHR CLAHRC Oxford and Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences) and Polly Kerr (NIHR Oxford BRC) discuss their initiative to provide training for their public contributors in some of the essentials of medical research, and why this is important.
Are you trying to lose weight? Make it a success with science, scales and apps
DPhil student Kerstin Frie takes us on a whistle stop tour of weight trackers and compares their features and user reviews.
From the 'quantified self' to a community of communally enacted selves
Postdoctoral Researcher Farzana Dudhwala explores the quantified self movement to understand the ways in which self-monitoring and self-quantifying technologies are implicated in the 'doing' of self.
EBM for under 18s: equipping the next generation to think critically about healthcare
Professor Carl Heneghan describes a school's outreach programme designed to bring EBM to young people.
What makes a systematic review “complex”?
Kamal R. Mahtani, Tom Jefferson, and Carl Heneghan reflect on the lack of definitions, and propose a solution.
The need for international primary care research leadership
Alison Ward, Director of Oxford University's Postgraduate Certificate in International Primary Care Research Leadership, explores the origins of the new Postgraduate Certificate, which is now open to applications.
A view from The Hill
Sociologist Alex Rushforth, from the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, recently attended Oxford’s annual digital health pitching event, The Hill, for the first time. Here’s what he made of it.
Let's Talk About Weight
Kate Farrington interviews SPCR doctoral student Charlotte Albury, who is a contributing author on Public Health England's step-by-step guide to conversations about weight management with children and families for health and care professionals.
We are still going for Gold
Following the EDU's Athena SWAN Awards announcement, where our department achieved a Silver renewal, Head of Department Professor Richard Hobbs reflects on our progress to date in creating a better workplace.
Publication bias: IN CAKE FORM. DataLab at the Curiosity Carnival
Dr Helen Curtis writes about her experience at Oxford's Curiosity Carnival.
Opening the door to a by-gone age of healthcare
Dan Richards-Doran reflects on the Oxford Open Doors event, and what it means to be involved.
Diet, identity and dopamine
Chef Tom Kerridge visited Oxford during this year's Oxfordshire Science Festival to talk about his diet with Professor Susan Jebb and an audience at the Sheldonian Theatre. Rebecca Nourse gives us the lowdown.
It’s false to believe that antibiotic resistance is only a problem in hospitals – GP surgeries are seeing it too
Dr Oliver van Hecke and Professor Chris Butler argue that antibiotic resistance applies to us all.
Can steroids soothe the thorny issue of acute sore throat?
Dr Gail Hayward discusses the outcome of the TOAST study, which aimed to better understand the role of steroids to treat sore throat.